If one cares to check the notes at the back of the most recent Pleiade edition, it turns out that Pampille is the nom de plume of Madame Leon Daudet who wrote recipes for her husband's right wing journal, L'Action Francaise.

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Once Waugh visited Paul Claudel, who afterward observed simply that his guest "lacks the allure of the true gentleman," a remarkably mild insult from the author matched, surely, in lethal French Catholic vituperation's annals by Leon Daudet alone.

Although Frame can barely refrain from laughing at her youthful pretensions, she also allows herself some pride in her knowledge of another language, and in feats of a memory she may have thought damaged beyond repair: she begins her own quotation sequence with Jean de la Fontaine's 'Le Corbeau et le Renard' from the Fables (1668), then, 'done with La Fontaine, turning for good measure to Alphonse Daudet, I shook the dust from 'Si vous avez jamais passe la nuite a la belle etoile [.

Its dependence on periodical publication, or even, as in the days of Maupassant and Daudet, on newspapers, both immerses it in the variegated current of such publications and also renders it as disposable as them.

This was a topic of discussion at a recent international conference (INCC, Cancun, 1 April, 2008) Compare "La Derniere Classe", by Alphonse Daudet, a story about a French teacher in Alsace being replaced by another who would teach only in German.

Indeed, throughout his life he encountered many prominent political and cultural figures, a number of whom make cameo appearances in this biography; these include Jules Massenet, Marcel Proust, Alphonse Daudet, Pierre Loti, Sarah Bernhardt, Sacha Guitry, Catulle Mendes, King Edward VII and his wife Queen Alexandra, Pauline Viardot, and Jean Cocteau.

Trotsky, Barbusse, and Sartre greeted Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) with great symphathy, yet at the same time the monarchist Leon Daudet attached himself to Celine as one of his greatest and most fervent admirers.

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